Thanks for posting. I've been a long time user of Motorcraft FL820S. I currently have 194,000 miles on our 2005 4.6 Explorer, which used these filters for most of it's life, some with the yellow PureOne oil filters. We've owned this vehicle since new so it's been well cared for. Early oil changes were 5,000 miles when under the 75,000 mile warranty. Afterwards they went to 7,500-9,000 mile OCI's. The oil still comes out a dark bronze and looking in the oil fill shows it to be relatively clean.

Thank You CB4017, I have been using FL820 filters on my wife's 3.0L in her freestyle since day 0ne , good to see the motorcraft quality is still there , i was getting worried about all of the tearolater stories here on BITOG

The quality of the Motorcraft oil filters may not be what it once was. I have torn an FL820S and have found rust on the metal parts of the filter element on at least two FL820S that were less than 4 months old.